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1 No. 740,549. Patented October 6, 1903.

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VIRGIL WALTER GILBERT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE S. S. WHITE DENTAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF PHILA- DELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

DENTAL PLIERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 740,549, dated October 6, 1903, Application filed February 20, 1903. Serial No. 144,182. (No model.)

To all whom i may OOH/067%: plugger -points 0, which when pressed" to- Be it known that I, VIRGIL WALTER GIL- getherconstituteasingle plugger-poiut. This BERT, a citizen of the United States, residing plugger-point, as shown, is ball-like in shape,

at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and its front or working surface may be ser- 5 and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a rated, as clearly shown in Fig. 4.

certain new and nsefulIrnprovernent in Den- Intermediate the front or working end of 40 tal Pliers; and I do hereby declare the folthe pliers and the butt-end and a suitable lowing to be a full, clear, and exact descripdistance from the plugger-point each memtion of the invention, such as will enable othher is formed onone edge with a depression 10 ers skilled in the art to which it appertains to D, the two depressions, which are opposite make and use the same. each other, constituting a finger-rest when My invention relates to dental pliers, and is the members are pressed together. The deapplicable more especially to that class ccmpressions may be nicely rounded, as desired. monly known as foil pliers and pluggers. My invention is not confined to pliers of .15 The object of the invention is to provide the precise form herein shown and described,

dental pliers of this character with a fingernor is it restricted to the exact configuration rest to better adapt them for applying and of the finger-rest illustrated herein. plugging foil and other forms of gold fillings I claim as my invention in tooth-cavities. Dental foil-pliers consisting of two mem- 20 In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is bers united at their butt-end and adapted to a side view of a pair of pliers indicating the be moved toward and away from each other, application of my invention. Fig. 2 is a top each member being provided with a plugger- View of said pliers, showing the members point, and each member also having a dethereof separated. Fig. 3 is a similar view pression on one edge thereof intermediate the 25 showing said members pressed together. Fig. plugger-point and the butt-end, said depreslis an end View, on a greatly-enlarged scale, sions being opposite each other and constiof the serrated Working end of the pliers. tuting a finger-rest when said members are The pliers to which my improvement is apbrought together, substantially as set forth. plicable consists of two members A A, united In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature go at butt-end B and normally sprung apart or in presence of two witnesses.

separated by reason of their spring-like con- VIRGIL WALTER GILBERT. struction, as is usual in dental pliers of this Witnesses: class. The opposite ends of the plier mem- HOWARD K. RUDOLPH,

bars are suitably curved and formed into JOHN C. AVILEs. 

